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Officials seek cause of fatal New York blast

Investigators are combing through a New York City shipyard trying to find the cause of a fire and explosion that killed one person and injured more than 30 firefighters and medical personnel.

Officials said 36 people were injured, most of them firefighters and other first responders, and one civilian died in Friday's blast on Staten Island.

District of Columbia

DOJ scrubs website of news on Jan. 6 cases

WASHINGTON -- The Department of Justice is acknowledging it's removed from its website news releases about criminal cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot. The department says the information about the prosecutions is "partisan propaganda."

The purge of news releases documenting criminal charges, convictions and sentencings is the latest step by the Trump administration to dramatically rewrite the history of the Capitol assault.

World

Pakistan

Suicide bombing near railway track kills 23

QUETTA -- A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle near a railway track as a passenger train passed through the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, killing at least 23 people and wounding over 70 others, officials said.

The force of the explosion caused two of the train cars to overturn and catch fire, sending thick black smoke into the air, according to footage shared online Sunday.

Philippines

Building under construction collapses

ANGELES -- A nine-story building under construction in a city north of the Philippine capital has collapsed, leaving at least one Malaysian tourist dead and 21 workers trapped.

Officials say the building fell before dawn on Sunday. Two trapped workers have been located alive but can't be immediately rescued.

Starting at /week.